George Adam Kissling[1] (3 July 1805 – 9 November 1865)[2] was the second Archdeacon of Waitemata.
[4] A Lutheran missionary who studied at the University of Basel, Kissling served with the German Mission Society in Liberia and Sierra Leone before ill-health led him to go to England.
[6] The Kisslings were sent by the Church Missionary Society to work at the Kawakawa (Hicks Bay) Mission from 1843 to 1846.
[10] George and Margaret Kissling opened a Māori girls boarding school in the Auckland suburb of Kohimarama.
[11] He taught students of theology at St John's College, including Riwai Te Ahu.